apparelled

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apparelled

  1. simple past and past participle of apparel.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, [] ; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, []—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
    • 1939 September, “Items of Interest: Southern Railway Cap Badges”, in Railway Magazine, page 234:
      Only a few of the staff have so far been apparelled, noticeably at Blackfriars.
    • 1987, Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, William Heinemann Ltd, page 205:
      "You were wearing the very clothes with which you are currently apparelled."